U.S. patent application number 11/523823 was filed with the patent office on 2008-04-24 for alternate capstand equipped with affixation means.
Invention is credited to Gerard M. Costello.
Application Number | 20080093325 11/523823 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 39316937 |
Filed Date | 2008-04-24 |
United States Patent
Application |
20080093325 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Costello; Gerard M. |
April 24, 2008 |
Alternate capstand equipped with affixation means
Abstract
The instant invention is an alternate capstand being
cylindrically shaped in the form of a hollow ring with the bottom
side thereof being contoured so as to fit snugly as against the
exterior walling of, for example, a typical soda-pop bottle
together with threading configured about the external walling of
the capstand and further with the bottom side of the capstand being
equipped with adhesive affixation means serving to ensure sturdy,
dependable affixation of the invention to such exterior
walling.
Inventors: |
Costello; Gerard M.;
(Wilmington, VT) |
Correspondence
Address: |
John J. Welch, Ltd.
8 E. Center Street
Rutland
VT
05701
US
|
Family ID: |
39316937 |
Appl. No.: |
11/523823 |
Filed: |
September 19, 2006 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
215/44 ;
215/379 |
Current CPC
Class: |
B65D 41/04 20130101;
B65D 23/12 20130101; B65D 2565/385 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
215/44 ;
215/379 |
International
Class: |
B65D 41/04 20060101
B65D041/04; B65D 90/02 20060101 B65D090/02 |
Claims
1. An alternate capstand equipped with affixation means,
comprising: a. a hollow, cylindrically shaped ring unit; b. a
bottom side of said ring unit being contoured so as to fit snugly
as against exterior walling of a bottle; c. external walling of
said ring unit being equipped with a threading configuration, and;
d. affixation means applied to said bottom side for facilitating
sturdy, dependable adherence of said bottom side to said exterior
walling.
2. An alternate capstand, comprising: a. a hollow, cylindrically
shaped ring unit; b. a bottom side of said ring unit being
contoured so as to fit snugly as against exterior walling of a
bottle; c. external walling of said ring unit being equipped with a
threading configuration, and; d. said bottom side being amenable to
adherence to said exterior walling by way of affixation means
applied to said exterior walling.
Description
CROSS REFERENCES TO PRIOR OR PATENT APPLICATIONS
[0001] There are no prior or parent applications in respect of the
instant invention but reference is hereby had to a related
application with application No.: 11/173,980 filed for and on
behalf of Mr. Costello with a filing date of Jul. 5, 2005.
FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
[0002] There is no federally sponsored research and development in
respect of the instant invention.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0003] 1. Field of the Invention
[0004] The instant invention relates to those devices admitting of
means of holding the caps of empty bottles.
[0005] 2. Art Information
[0006] The devices references in the enclosed Art Information
Statement, respectfully submitted, do not anticipate the instant
invention.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
1. A Brief Description of the Invention
[0007] The invention is a cylindrically shaped hollow ring unit
with a bottom side thereof being contoured to fit snugly as
against, for instance, the exterior walling of a typical glass or
plastic soda-pop bottle or plastic motor oil bottle container.
Affixation means such as a notably strong adhesive material is
applied to the bottom side thereof so as to facilitate sturdy and
dependable affixation of the invention to the exterior walling of
the bottle. Moreover, the external walling of the ring unit is
equipped with a threading configuration for acceptance of threading
about the inner walling of a typical recessed bottle cap.
2. OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
[0008] Bottles made of plastic when virtually empty are mostly
always, in respect of waste disposal, subjected to crushing and
compacting prior to perhaps any viable recycling of the same. Such
bottles with caps as may have been snapped or screwed back onto the
primary capstands thereof can be crushed only with a great deal of
force, relatively stated, leading unavoidably to ultimately a
blowing off of such caps by virtue of a concomitantly compressive
expulsion of air trapped within such a capped bottle. This leads to
an environmentally undesirable blowing about as well of the
residual contents then still, more often than not, likewise trapped
within the virtually empty bottle. If such contents are of the
order of hazardous chemicals such as, for example, motor oil, the
resultant post-blowout can have clearly untoward environmental
repercussions. The instant invention serves to respond notably to
such a thorny waste disposal problem.
[0009] The cap of the bottle once empty is simply affixed to the
alternate capstand affixed to the exterior walling of the bottle
leaving the primary capstand atop the bottle capless and the
interior of the bottle concomitantly open to the exterior. Crushing
and compression of a virtually empty bottle, the cap of which would
have been affixed to the instant invention in turn, itself affixed
to the exterior walling of the bottle requires much less force to
flatten such a bottle as would have been otherwise required as
respects the crushing and compression flattening of conventionally
capped bottles as noted above. There is, in respect of resort to
utilization of the instant invention, accordingly, then no reason
to fear the environmental pollution otherwise resulting from such
invariably forced expulsion of any such residual bottle contents
concomitant with the forced expulsion of trapped air, perforce of
the presence of the cap of the bottle having been affixed to the
primary capstand of the empty bottle, since, there is, with respect
to the instant invention no possibility that there would ever be
any such trapped internal air within it.
[0010] The instant invention is also extremely use just for the
benefit of persons ingesting the contents of a glass or plastic
bottle. This is because with resort to utilization of the
invention, such persons would no longer need to carry the cap in
one hand while using the other to ingest the contents or otherwise
being in need of a free hand. Such persons would not need to place
the cap somewhere away from the bottle while ingesting contents
only to then have to be concerned with possibly misplacing the cap,
or, having to perambulate while ingesting, then having to return to
the site where the cap would have been originally placed prior to
such ingestion.
[0011] In view of the foregoing, respectfully submitted, the
instant invention is indeed new, useful and unquestionably
unique.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0012] 1. FIG. 1 is an isometric depiction of a typical soda-pop
bottle full of contents and capped.
[0013] 2. FIG. 2 is an isometric depiction of a typical recessed
soda-pop bottle cap.
[0014] 3. FIG. 3 is an isometric depiction of a typical
non-recessed snap on soda-pop bottle cap.
[0015] 4. FIG. 4 is a top plan view of the invention.
[0016] 5. FIG. 5 is a lateral plan view of the invention.
[0017] 6. FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the bottom side of the
invention.
[0018] 7. FIG. 7 is an isometric depiction of the invention affixed
to the bottle shown in FIG. 1, but now empty with a bottle cap in
turn affixed to the invention.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0019] FIG. 1 is an isometric depiction of a prototypical soda-pop
bottle A. FIG. 2 is an isometric depiction of a typical recessed
soda-pop bottle cap B. FIG. 3 is an isometric depiction of a
typical non-recessed snap-on soda-pop bottle cap C. FIG. 4 is a top
plan view of the invention which encompasses initially, a hollow,
cylindrically shaped ring unit 1. FIG. 5 is a lateral plan view of
the invention showing the threading configuration 2 about the
exterior walling of unit 1. Such threading serves to facilitate the
interfacing of the threading about internal walling of a recessed
bottle cap B to thereby hold it threadably to unit 1. FIG. 6, a
perspective view of the bottom side of ring unit 1 depicts the
bottom facing of unit 1 which bottom facing is appropriately
contoured so as to enable ring unit 1 to fit snugly as against the
exterior walling of bottle A via adhesive affixation means applied
to the bottom facing of unit 1. For a second embodiment, ring unit
1 as just described could be free of adhesive affixation means as
just noted, and instead be affixed to the exterior walling of
bottle A via affixation means applied to such exterior walling such
as can be seen with resort to FIG. 7. FIG. 7 is reflective of use
of either of the above-described two embodiments of the invention.
Resort to FIG. 5 with respect to the locus of threading
configuration 2 upon the external walling of unit 1 in respect of
the threading free upper portion of such external walling enables
one to gain an appreciation for how ring unit 1 can also holdably
receive a non-recessed bottle cap such as cap C shown in FIG.
3.
[0020] Once the contents of a bottle A have been removed therefrom,
bottle cap B, instead of being threadably replaced to the primary
capstand D of bottle A, is threadably affixed to ring unit 1
adhesively affixed to the exterior walling of bottle A as shown in
FIG. 7. In this way, as earlier noted, trapped air otherwise
remnant within bottle A whenever bottle cap B would be threadably
affixed atop an empty bottle A, is accordingly not therein present
so as to thereby notably impede the crushing of bottle A during the
end phase of bottle recycling. Spillage concerns at this juncture
are essentially obviated given the affixation of the instant
invention to the exterior walling of bottle A so as to then be
amenable to receipt of a bottle cap B. Concomitant requisite
crushing pressure is moreover notably reduced as well resulting in
energy savings of no small significance when crushing involving
perhaps thousands of bottles A equipped with the invention is meant
to occur at some given time. Observations of a similar nature also
apply with respect to the matter of a bottle cap C being initially
on and then removed from the primary capstand D of a bottle A to be
later suitably pressed into place about the upper portion of
affixed ring unit 1, the alternate capstand serving to hold the
caps B or C of empty bottles A. Bottles A could be bottles holding
liquid contents other than soda-pop, namely such other sorts of
liquid contents as milk products or motor oil or even cleaning
chemicals and the like.
[0021] In conclusion, it is further respectfully submitted that the
instant invention will prove to be, at the very least, an enormous
boon to the bottle recycling industry.
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